Veratrole (1,2-dimethoxybenzene) has a sweet, phenolic-woody odor with soft vanillic and slightly spicy nuances. It sits between guaiacol and vanillin in character — warm and slightly medicinal, but rounder and less smoky than guaiacol.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1380.
Colorless viscous liquid, fused opaque mass, or crystals.
Very slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Sweet-creamy, rather pungent odor which upon dilution becomes very Vanilla-like.
Earthy-sweet, nut-like, but very sweet and also Vanilla-like taste in concentrations below 20 ppm.
The title chemical is rarely offered from the usual manufacturers of perfume and flavor chemicals, but it is often prepared by the interested party for use and not re-sale. It could be used as a modifier in Oakmoss compositions and artificial Oakmoss bases, and it blends very pleasantly with Coumarin, Vetiver, Amylsalicylate, etc. in fixative bases for Colognes, etc.
The ether has been suggested for use in flavor compositions, e.g. Nut, Walnut, Vanilla, etc. but it is not included in the American G.R.A.S. list and probably not used in the USA for food flavors.
Produced by methylation of Catechol or Guaiacol with Dimethylsulfate in weak aqueous alkaline solution.